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I have found a website that gives the details of all of the sources of The Tale of Sinuhe, but I can't figure out what the actual date of discovery was for each of those sources (in order to find the earliest time of discovery) because I am not trained in history and I have trouble understanding the terminology and references.

Can someone please help me with this?

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  • Just to clarify, you are interested in when the primary sources we have for the story were discovered, not when the events in the story were set?
    – T.E.D. ♦
    Commented Jan 31, 2023 at 23:27
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    If you do a Google Scholar search by date range, the first references appear around 1906-1908. If I were going to dig further I'd check what those say.
    – Brian Z
    Commented Feb 1, 2023 at 0:41
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    One of the papyri-(Berlin 3022)- turned up in 1837, with no 'archeological context'.
    – justCal
    Commented Feb 1, 2023 at 1:23
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    @TED Yes, that is what I'm looking for.
    – Tzvi K
    Commented Feb 1, 2023 at 6:56
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    @TzviK Actually here is a reference from 1894: google.com/books/edition/… And here are the results I was looking at earlier: scholar.google.com/…
    – Brian Z
    Commented Feb 1, 2023 at 14:06

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